Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2014, 5:31 PM EDT for 6 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 44 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2014, 5:31 PM EDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2014, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Jones County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 5:50 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Macon, GA | TWO LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN ONTO POWERLINES AT EISENHOWER AND PINE AVE IN MACON. |
| May 14, 5:55 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Macon, GA | NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN IN MACON. |
| May 14, 6:14 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Wayside, GA | AT LEAST 10 TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN COUNTYWIDE ALONG WITH SEVERAL POWER LINES. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 895 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
100
WUUS52 KFFC 142131
SVRFFC
GAC009-021-169-207-289-319-142215-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0031.140514T2131Z-140514T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
531 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WESTERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
JONES COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
EASTERN MONROE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHERN TWIGGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
WESTERN WILKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 615 PM EDT
* AT 524 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH.
THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES
SOUTH OF GORDON TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GORDON TO 10 MILES SOUTH
OF MACON...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PAYNE
CITY...IVEY...GRAY AND MILLEDGEVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND REPORTS
OF NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...HAIL OR FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8
6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. YOU CAN ALSO TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG GAWX.
&&
LAT...LON 3267 8363 3267 8367 3269 8369 3270 8375
3279 8382 3310 8389 3317 8356 3315 8319
3267 8320 3270 8343 3266 8359 3267 8359
3266 8362
TIME...MOT...LOC 2131Z 166DEG 39KT 3278 8329 3282 8347
3277 8362
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 35 min |
| May 14, 3:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 15 hr |
| May 14, 3:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Dodge, Telfair, Wheeler, Wilcox | 23 min |
| May 14, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 24 min |
| May 14, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 28 min |
| May 14, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Telfair | 41 min |
| May 14, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Muscogee, Talbot | 29 min |
| May 14, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 39 min |
| May 14, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Peach | 28 min |
| May 14, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Macon, Monroe, Peach and 1 more | 43 min |
| May 14, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Morgan, Newton and 1 more | 48 min |
| May 14, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Crawford, Henry, Lamar, Monroe, Pike and 2 more | 48 min |
| May 14, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Henry, Morgan, Newton and 2 more | 47 min |
| May 14, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett | 23 min |
| May 14, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth, Hall, Jackson | 30 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.